Serpent Ancestor

Xu Hei, having the experience of killing the Nightmare Demon Lord, knew that the protectors of the Sea God Sect wouldn’t die so easily. They had their own unique life sources.

The heart veins, the sea of consciousness in the forehead, and even the Elemental Infant were not their life sources! Even if their physical bodies were completely destroyed and their Elemental Infant annihilated, they wouldn’t perish!

These left-path demons were quite different from ordinary cultivators.

This realization made Xu Hei aware that Xu Qingzhi wasn’t dead, and perhaps the Devouring Demon Lord wasn’t either!

Otherwise, why would the corpse of the Nine-Headed Snake still be stiff, maintaining the formation without dispersing? Clearly, the target was still present!

At this moment, Xu Hei suddenly recalled Hei Huang’s words.

”The Heavenly Demon Technique has an additional effect, which is to restrain the Sea God Sect.”

Hei Huang had only mentioned it briefly without explaining how it restrained them, so Xu Hei hadn’t paid it much mind. But now, he had to carefully consider the meaning of those words.

Xu Hei focused on the spot where the Devouring Demon Lord had died, and with a thought, he activated the Heavenly Demon Technique.

Suddenly, Xu Hei’s vision changed, as if he had switched to another frequency, resonating with the target.Faintly, he saw a mass of viscous black substance hidden in the crevice of space.

This substance was undetectable to ordinary people, only those who had cultivated the Heavenly Demon Technique could discover it.

”There’s indeed a problem!”

Without hesitation, Xu Hei pierced it with a sword, striking the black substance precisely.

”Splurt!”

The black substance, upon being hit, burst out from the spatial crevice, attempting to escape. But Xu Hei was prepared, his massive form pounced forward, opening his huge mouth to swallow the black mass whole.

The black mass was directly swallowed into Xu Hei’s belly and sent into the Demon God Cauldron for refinement.

”Ah!! How could you possibly find me? This is impossible!! Ah!...”

A shrill scream emanated from the black substance, but Xu Hei ignored it and continued refining.

”Sizzle sizzle sizzle...”

The black substance grew smaller and smaller, wisps of black smoke rising, transferring to the Demon Seed located at the Elemental Infant, being absorbed by it.

A strange phenomenon occurred.

The Demon Seed, after absorbing the black smoke, began to grow slowly, like a seed breaking through its shell and sprouting.

”It can do this too.” Xu Hei found it quite miraculous.

In fact, after he killed the Nightmare Demon Lord, the Demon Seed had already started sprouting. The Demon Seed could automatically absorb the life source of the protectors as nourishment for itself.

This was the way to restrain the Sea God Sect!

The Devouring Demon Lord’s screams grew weaker, his last bit of vitality fading away, reaching a dead end.

Even until his death, he couldn’t understand how Xu Hei discovered him.

This mass of demonic essence was a gift from the Sea God, undetectable by anyone in this realm. As long as the demonic essence remained, they could endlessly resurrect, never dying, a bane to the living beings of this realm!

This was why he served the Sea God!

But now, the invincible demonic essence no longer existed, Xu Hei shattered his illusion, making him realize that he, a protector of the Sea God Sect, could indeed die!

”Ah!!”

With one final scream, the Devouring Demon Lord completely perished.

The mass of black substance known as demonic essence was fully refined by Xu Hei.

Following the old method, Xu Hei discovered a similar mass of black viscous substance hidden in the spatial crevice at the spot where Xu Qingzhi had died.

At this moment, the mass belonging to Xu Qingzhi was slowly moving, seemingly trying to leave.

Xu Hei rushed forward, tearing the space with dragon claws, swallowing it in one gulp.

Xu Qingzhi’s terrified screams immediately echoed.

”Fellow Daoist Xu, spare me, spare me, I’ll tell you everything, just don’t kill me!”

”We share the same surname, we’re kin, don’t kill me, I’ll tell you everything... Ah!!”

Ignoring Xu Qingzhi’s pleas, Xu Hei directly refined him with the Demon God Cauldron, allowing the Demon Seed to absorb him.

In an instant, Xu Qingzhi vanished into thin air.

With the disappearance of the black substance, Xu Qingzhi’s soul lamp finally extinguished completely.

Xu Hei let out a long breath.

At this moment, the Demon Seed within him had fully sprouted, growing a small branch.

According to Hei Huang, the Demon Seed represented the level of the Heavenly Demon Technique. At this point, his Heavenly Demon Technique should be considered barely entry-level.

”This Heavenly Demon Technique is also an evil technique, capable of devouring even the protectors of the Sea God Sect.” Xu Hei muttered to himself.

However, Xu Hei firmly believed in one principle: whether a technique was evil depended on the user.

Just like how it’s not the knife that kills, but the person wielding it.

After the fall of the Devouring Demon Lord and the Undying Demon Lord, the formation in the sky lost its luster.

It was a trapping formation constructed from nine snake bones, interlinked and crisscrossed, resembling a spider web, capable of fixing a space so that no one could escape.

Xu Hei looked up to see the formation rapidly shrinking, transforming into a palm-sized disc that fell before him.

With a wave of his hand, Xu Hei collected it.

”This is a relic left by the senior Nine-Headed Snake, I must hand it over to his descendants.” Xu Hei thought to himself.

Though the item was valuable, Xu Hei had no intention of keeping it for himself. It was formed from the corpse of the Nine-Headed Snake, and he intended to hand it over to the Nine-Headed Worm.

This journey had yielded enough for Xu Hei. After each protector’s death, a storage artifact similar to Void Stones was left behind.

Xu Hei didn’t bother to inspect them and directly left the Immortal Pavilion, heading towards the nearest battlefield.

That was the Sea Commerce Guild!

After the Sea God Sect’s invasion, the president of the Sea Commerce Guild had retreated in an unknown manner.

Only two managers remained, besieged by a group of Sea God Sect elders, their situation precarious, relying on formations to hold out for so long.

But with Xu Hei’s arrival, the Sea God Sect elders were taken down one by one, all within three breaths.

His strength was terrifying!

Xu Hei moved swiftly, heading to the next location.

”It’s him.”

Li Yuan’an watched the disappearing flood dragon in the distance, his eyes filled with shock.

Once, Xu Hei was just a small figure bullied by others, but now, even Li Yuan’an was no match for him.

He thought Xu Hei would casually eliminate him, but Xu Hei didn’t even spare him a glance, leaving directly.

Li Yuan’an felt a mix of emotions, both fear and regret.

”So, I’m just an ant.”

Li Yuan’an held a teacup in his hand, sighing helplessly.

With the fall of the Undying Demon Lord and the Devouring Demon Lord, Xu Hei had no opponents left on Star Island, sweeping through almost effortlessly.

Xu Hei’s Ji Ying also devoured along the way, already full, though it was unclear if consuming the brains of these evil faction members would have any side effects.

In just the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, Xu Hei had eliminated all the demonic cultivators on Star Island.

…………

In the depths of the East Sea, at the Sea God Altar.

The stone slabs representing wood and water shattered one after another.

”Two more protectors have fallen.”

”Hehe, Heavenly Demon Scattered Person, you’ve done well!”

”I’m quite curious, how much strength do you have left to oppose me now!”

A sinister voice echoed from within the altar.

The filthy black pollution surged forth, spreading at ten times the previous speed.

And at this moment, another stone slab shattered, the fire-shaped slab.

The timing was almost simultaneous with water and wood.

”Yehuo has fallen too, who did it?”

The voice from within the altar sounded slightly surprised.

The strength of the Yehuo Demon Lord was only slightly stronger than the Undying Demon Lord, so being taken down wasn’t surprising, but what surprised him was the timing of death.

The Yehuo Demon Lord was on Amber Island, but according to his calculations, the Heavenly Demon Scattered Person should be on Star Island.

Could it be that someone else was responsible for taking down the Yehuo Demon Lord?

But besides the Heavenly Demon Scattered Person, who else had the ability to completely annihilate a protector’s demonic essence?

This was an unexpected factor.

…………

At this moment.

On Amber Island.

Xu Fu’s head was being held by a shadowy figure, its black demonic essence already erased by unknown means.

The Yehuo Demon Lord was the only protector whose body remained after death.

The reason the body remained was because this person intended to use Xu Fu’s corpse to exchange for a reward.

”Ten million spirit stones, ten million spirit stones!”

”Ten million, a lifetime to spend…”

The masked figure muttered incessantly.

Xu Fu, the top name on the bounty list, with a reward of ten million, funded by the Qin Kingdom’s royal family.

From the moment he saw the bounty, he had been planning, but only now did he have the confidence to act.

This was a perfect opportunity, with the Sea God Sect fully mobilized, Xu Fu came alone to the weakest of the three islands, Amber Island, with only two hundred minions and three elders.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, if not now, then when?

He stored Xu Fu’s body in a storage bag, sealing it with countless seals for preservation.

”Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

Without any unnecessary actions, he summoned flying swords from all over his body, forming a flying ship under his feet, heading towards the Qin Kingdom at the fastest speed, quickly disappearing into the horizon.

…………

In the Penglai Sea.

Waves of black pollution spread from all directions, dyeing the seawater pitch black.

Unlike the previous invasion, this time they adopted a method of transmitting pollution, first eradicating the sea creatures.

This pollution only spread in seawater, making it the best way to destroy the Penglai Sea, and it was the Sea God’s authority.

In the ink-black seawater, members of the Sea God Sect could appear from the water at any time, unaffected by any negative effects.

This directly led to the Penglai Sea side having no choice but to retreat.

Either they could only shrink back on land islands and wait for death, or be eroded by pollution, leaving no place for burial.

The Water Kylin made a decisive decision, ordering all disciples to retreat to Penglai Island for refuge. The master also opened the doors, accepting many sea beasts, and with the size of Penglai Island, accommodating them was more than enough.

However, Penglai Island was already surrounded by pollution, and they couldn’t leave.

This was an attempt to annihilate them completely!

At this moment, Yu Jianqiu and many Chosen sat cross-legged on Martial Arts Island, watching the approaching pollution from afar.

In the polluted sea, patches of pitch-black figures rose and fell, appearing and disappearing, accompanied by sharp, eerie laughter, rapidly approaching.

The number of enemies was even greater than last time!

A fierce battle was imminent.